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Gameplay => Newbie Help (Start Here) => Topic started by: Kuiper7986 on October 29, 2005, 10:41:47 am

Title: What's the difference in Updaters, and about the resume update feature
Post by: Kuiper7986 on October 29, 2005, 10:41:47 am

What\'s the difference between the Updater and Updater (Recover Mode)?

Also, Talad said of a way to resume updates, so incase you have to stop the update, you can resume it later, how can this feature be accessed? I\'m starting from a fresh download .exe for Windows.

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Post by: Androgos on October 29, 2005, 11:53:48 am

Recover mode doesn\'t use as many files as the normal updater and thus can repair itself in most cases. Recover mode lacks features like Game server ping and total progress counters.

The auto resume thingy is always on since it\'s how the updater works. If you need to reboot or something, just do it and it will continue where it stopped

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Post by: Kuiper7986 on October 29, 2005, 09:06:20 pm

It doesn\'t continue for me, unless it is and somehow I\'m missing it.  It starts from zero if I start again.  But I did notice that the total overall MB changed from 64 to 42.38, does that mean I downloaded 20MB already, and it\'s resuming from there?

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Post by: Jabren on October 30, 2005, 09:36:10 am

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Originally posted by Kuiper7986
It doesn\'t continue for me, unless it is and somehow I\'m missing it.  It starts from zero if I start again.  But I did notice that the total overall MB changed from 64 to 42.38, does that mean I downloaded 20MB already, and it\'s resuming from there?

Well, It doesn\'t really resume the last update when you run it, it probably makes more sense to say that it checks that all files match the ones the server have to offer, and will only update files that are different from the ones on the server, since you have allready updated 20MB of files, it sees that those files match the versions of those the server offer, and so will not download these.

A usefull side-effect of this is that if you ever delete a file by mistake or a file is corrupted, the updater is likely to fetch that file again the next time it is run.